transcription delimiters. The close and mid-height front vowels of English (vowels of i and e type) have undergone a variety of changes over time and often...

transcription delimiters. In the history of English phonology, there have been many diachronic sound changes affecting vowels, especially involving phonemic...

of modern English have two close back vowels: the near-close near-back rounded vowel /ʊ/ found in words like foot, and the close back rounded vowel /uː/...

history of English high back vowels Phonological history of English high front vowels English-language vowel changes before historic /r/ English-language...

The close front rounded vowel, or high front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic...

The close-mid front rounded vowel, or high-mid front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International...

The near-close front rounded vowel, or near-high front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International...

merger. In the Old English vowel system, the vowels in the open back area were unrounded: /ɑ/, /ɑː/. There were also rounded back vowels of mid-height: /o/...

The near-close near-front unrounded vowel, or near-high near-front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol...

The close-mid front unrounded vowel, or high-mid front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International...

The close front unrounded vowel, or high front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound that occurs in most spoken languages, represented in the International...

International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the exact mid front unrounded vowel between close-mid [e] and open-mid [ɛ], but it is normally written ⟨e⟩...

article describes those aspects of the phonological history of the English language which concern consonants. Reduction of /hw/ – to /h/ in a few words (such...

/ˈsa(ɪ)əns/ with one syllable. Phonological history of English Phonological history of English vowels Trisyllabic laxing Great Vowel Shift Foyer may also be...

(2009), p. 174. "Phonological inventory of Paraguayan Guarani". South American Phonological Inventory Database. Berkeley: University of California. 2015...

Alphabet: Before the Great Vowel Shift, Middle English in Southern England had seven long vowels, /iː eː ɛː aː ɔː oː uː/. The vowels occurred in, for example...

One of these, Swedish, even contrasts the two types of rounding in front vowels (see near-close near-front rounded vowel, with Swedish examples of both...

than this for the former three vowels. The vowels of Australian English can be divided according to length. The long vowels, which include monophthongs and...

The phonological system of the Old English language underwent many changes during the period of its existence. These included a number of vowel shifts...

Perception of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese speakers Phonological development Phonological history of English vowels Phonological history of English consonants...

the phonological system of New Zealand English. While New Zealanders speak differently depending on their level of cultivation (i.e. the closeness to Received...

the short vowels were in fact lowered to become open-mid vowels, as is shown by their values in Modern English. The front rounded vowels /y yː ø øː œː/...

The near-open front unrounded vowel, or near-low front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that...

languages. It is one of the eight primary cardinal vowels, not directly intended to correspond to a vowel sound of a specific language but rather to serve as...

phonetically near-open central [ɐ̹ː]. It is a phonological open-mid front rounded vowel, the long counterpart of /œ/. Riad (2014) reports that [ɶː] in Stockholm...

transcription delimiters. The phonological history of the English language includes various changes in the phonology of consonant clusters. The H-cluster...

[j w] or the close vowels [i u]. Transcribing the diphthongs as ⟨aɪ̯ aʊ̯⟩ is a more precise or narrower transcription, since the English diphthongs usually...

The close back unrounded vowel, or high back unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic...

contrasts the two types of rounding in front vowels (see near-close front rounded vowel, with Swedish examples of both types of rounding). As there are...

steal"), and a distinction between short vowels and long vowels in stressed syllables. It had a larger number of vowel qualities in stressed syllables – /i...